 guys this is Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music and in this lesson we are going to look at Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Well the song has essentially three chord progressions. Well you could say four because you have one section where it's just an endless E chord. The scale is E major by the way except for the intro which I'll come to later and you have an outro also which has very interesting chords. So let's start first of all with the verse part and I've written the chords down. You have E major, D major, C sharp minor, E with G sharp bass and A quick change that means you'll be playing this lesser than these chords or half the time is these chords. So it's E B C sharp minor, G sharp A and E B C sharp A in the second line. Let's see how that goes. That's the first line. Right at the word problem you can go. It's essentially following the singer. So you have to be prepared to change your chords rather quickly. So I've also written down the rhythm pattern of each chord here. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and right and similarly for each line 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and that's your verse. So let's see how that sounds. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and right. So line 1 you include this 3 and and line 2 you include the you don't you remove the 3 and okay. So that's E major B major C sharp minor E with G sharp A. So sometimes I feel like E with G sharp bass and A major and the second verse second line just goes to E on the on B at the off C sharp at the on A at the off. I repeat and that repeats twice and goes to that long chord right. So when you play these chords also try to play them with the correct inversion that'll be very helpful. If you have a doubt on inversions you can go to our piano and theory tutorials playlist and you'll have a lot of tutorials there on how to use inversions etc right. So before we go to the pre chorus we have a sort of connecting section where you have an ambient E major 7th chord that's between the verse and the pre you have this chord let's see how it sounds okay. So if you know E major you can basically do a few things you can move this E down to D sharp that should do the trick that's one way to build it. So this E major is E major 7th by moving the E down to D sharp. Another way to do it is play E major here and then add the D sharp on top which is essentially inversions right. So I'll do the last line of the verse and then goes to the pre. So let me play you the pre chorus or actually the chorus it's the next section basically. So that's F sharp minor E major B major F sharp minor. So you could do it in the same rhythm as the verse which we have here or else you could follow the original rhythm which the guitarist played which I've written down here and let's see how it sounds with the first rhythm. That's F sharp minor E major B major F sharp minor and if you want you can get that original rhythm as well where they change it 1 and 2 let me play that 1 and 2 and 3 that's the E major chord here at the end of the 2 and the on of the 3 so 2 3 4 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 so F sharp minor is repeated twice E major is repeated twice the rest are just hit single 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and so on so okay let me do that again slowly 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 1 and 2 and 2 and 3 right and then we go to the bridge leading to the outro of the song the bridge and the outro section have pretty much the same chords so let's let's look at the bridge and the outro basically the same thing so you have a major so that's a major and you go to C major G major F major so A into 3 so the first time you do normal C and every alternate time based on the bass line which flea is playing you go you either go C or then he does the base line there right in that gap so first time it's a and the next time it's a C major in the right hand with an A base here so G and F come together and it's pretty much in common and then you go G F C with A and then we stay on F so basically the outro so that tune pretty much repeats till the outro and then it's just the bass guitar right so let's just recap what we've done thus far the verse is E B na na C sharp B C sharp A that happens into 2 and then we go into the E major 7th chord you can play that as an arpeggio like that if you want and then the pre-chorus which has that interesting rhythm 1 2 3 4 oops so it's basically and so on and then you have the outro front bridge same chords stay on F as you can see with throughout the entire thing I'm using the inversions for each chord right so these are basically all the sections of under the bridge however there's an intro which is very interestingly played on the guitar so while the guitarist is playing that you can just hold these chords that's D major F sharp 4 times and then we go to the verse it's pretty much the song all the best and have fun playing the track cheers